Barbed fence



(No Model.)

H. UTTER.

B'ARBED FENCE.

No. 369,825. Patented Sept. 13, 1887.

UNIT D STATES 'HOMER UTTER, OF CUBA, NEW YORK.

BARBED FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,825, dated September 13, 1887.

Application filed May 4, 1885. Serial No. 164,422. (No model.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HOMER UTTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cuba, in the, county of Allegany and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barbs for Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to movable barbs in stead of stationary ones, the object being to avoid the dangers and disadvantages of the latter; and the invention as constructed will be understood by the following specification and claim.

In the drawing the figure represents a perspective of a section of a wire fence having my improvement thereon.

A represents a double wire twisted, and O O stay-pieces, made, preferably, of metal, cut into strips and the ends bent to the center and formed in shape like the figure 8. This is set in between the twisted strands of the wire A, which keep the stays in place. a

B represents a barb, cylindrical in form, made of sheet metal one-half inch in diameter and about one inch long. Its surface is out into V-shaped points, which are then bent outward, thus making the barbs. Each of these cylinders is strung on the wire and a stay-piece 0 set in the wire each side. The barb has one inch or more play on either side or end, giving it a longitudinal movement. The rotary motion is obtained by the barb turning on the wire, the stays keeping the barbs in place.

The great advantage of these barbs is that they ward off stock without injuring them, the objection to ordinary wire fencing being the damage to animals running against the sta tionary points, and sometimes becoming entangled in the wire. My barb merely turns over, giving the animal a few pricks.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A wire fence comprising a body composed of two or more strands, a series of rotatable barbs disposed at intervals on said body, and stops to keep said barbs properly separated, each of said stops consisting of a short piece of metal interlaced with the strands, substantially as set forth.

HOMER UTTER.

\Vitnesses:

CARL UTTER, MAY T. UTTER. 

